Constant comments on Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy - Less Wrong

106 Post author: lukeprog 20 March 2011 08:28PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 23 March 2011 01:38:38AM *  2 points [-]

This can be true, but it is also possible that an idea may be hard to independently develop because the intellectual foundations have not yet been laid.

Well, yes, but that's essentially my point. What you've done is pointed out that the foundation might lie slightly before Quine. Indeed it might. But I don't think this changes the essential idea. See here for discussion of this point.